He said: “I was enjoying the serenity of being alone and the peace of the isolated area - the only sounds being the lapping waves, odd gull and the regular clang of the lighthouse bell.”

Anthony also had a highly commended shot, a moody black and white storm brewing in Talisker Bay on the Isle of Skye.

Auroras also featured strongly in the competition, with third place going to Nottinghamshire’s Peter Jones with a picture of the northern lights in Iceland.

Nick Jackson’s portrait under the stars with an aurora in Abisko, Sweden and an ‘exploding’ northern lights shot taken the same night were both highly commended as was Anita Hummel’s capture of a misty valley near Freiburg in Germany.

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Another runner-up was a picture of a tiny church in Russia during a blizzard.

Photographer Igor Sherman, 56, from St Petersburg, told how he braved the snowstorm to get to the Vuoksa (corr) River where the church is.

Also showing the power of the weather was the lightning strike captured in the Canyonlands National Park in Utah, by American Carl Crumley.